Rhiannon Giddens announces new album with Francesco Turrisi, recorded in Dublin

US musician and Carolina Chocolate Drops founder Rhiannon Giddens has announced a new album with her partner, Italian musician Francesco Turrisi.

They’re Calling Me Home was recorded at a small studio outside of Dublin over the course of six days by the opera-trained folk singer. When the world shut down in March 2020, Giddens and Turrisi were tucked into what’s supposed to be their part-time home in Ireland. Now they’re coming up on a year of full-time Irish residency—which inspired the multi-instrumentalists to explore the meaning of a literal and figurative idea of home.

The first track released, 'Calling Me Home', was written by Alice Gerrard and touched Giddens from the very first listen:

“Some people just know how to tap into a tradition and an emotion so deep that it sounds like a song that has always been around,” Giddens said. “‘Calling Me Home’ struck me forcefully and deeply the first time I heard it, and every time since. This song just wanted to be sung and so I listened.”

Rhiannon Giddens released there is no Other with Francesco Turrisi in 2019. Last year, she and Amanda Palmer shared a cover of Portishead’s 'It’s a Fire'.

Listen to the new LP’s opening track 'Calling Me Home' below:

They’re Calling Me Home tracklist:

1. Calling Me Home
2. Avalan
3. Si Dolce è’l Tormento
4. I Shall Not Be Moved
5. Black as Crow
6. O Death
7. Niwel Goes to Town
8. When I Was in My Prime
9. Waterbound
10. Bully for You
11. Nenna Nenna
12. Amazing Grace